Why Read The Classics?

Calvino, Italo

Thirty-six essays: books, authors, motifs; subjects include: "Conrad's Captains", Francis Ponge, "That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana", "The Structure of Orlando Furioso", "The Odysseys within The Odyssey", and the title piece; indexed.

Publisher: Jonathan Cape. Reprint 1999
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.


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